a little bit of me

Snow Camp.

I think I may have finally recovered from snow camp.  It was still a little hard to get up this morning but that my be this cold that is lingering.  On the first night of snow camp, during the catwalk show of all former camp t-shirts, I realized that it was our 6th snow camp at the church.  That seems crazy to me!  We had a great camp this year.  Unfortunately, I was feeling pretty miserable (came down with a bad cold the day we left) the whole time but I pushed through and it was a success.  There was 38 of us up there with only 9 of us being girls.  We were really outnumbered!!  Our summer intern also came up with a few of his buddies and did our drama/skits.  It turned out great!  The first couple of skits were just hilarious!!  We also had a fabulous camp cook this year, Hannah.  The food was so delicious this year.  The teenagers all loved the food and I can't tell you what a difference it makes to have good meals and snacks.  When everyone is fed with yummy food and full, then I am happy.  I guess that's the mother in me.  I also helped Hannah in the kitchen this year.  I am by no means a great cook but I can take orders pretty well!  :)  Our super hot speaker (my hubby) did a great job too.  We had at least one accept Christ and definitely a lot of searching and other decisions made.  Overall it was a great camp!

I just can't believe we're almost done with February.  We had a taste of spring yesterday with the sun out and weather in the 60's.  It was so fabulous and made me long for those spring days!  I can't wait.  I keep waiting for a slower season in life and it doesn't seem to happen.  We're still doing indoor soccer with Dawson and started practicing yesterday for outdoor soccer.  They have their first game a week from Saturday.  We'll be busy with that for 8 weeks and then we'll be in baseball season, which is crazy.  Dana is coaching again and it will pretty much take up our life until the end of May.  Don't get me wrong, I love watching Dawson playing sports, but sometimes it feels a little overwhelming on the calendar and the budget.  But this is our life and I do love it.  I hope to be back soon...I have a couple of posts that I've started and never finished.  Happy middle-of-the-week day!

Valentine's weekend.

Man, do I love three day weekends!  It feels like I skip the dreaded Monday and now just have a short week.  We had a great Valentine's weekend.  It started off Friday night with me getting flowers from Dana.  They were beautiful...red roses and white tulips.  So pretty!  It was so sweet because Dana also surprised us with flowers for his other two girls.  He had these little sign/cards he made that said Happy Valentines to Abby and Sophie with pink tulips in a vase.  They were so excited and I was so proud of him for doing it.  Dawson and him picked them out.  Dana said he's training Dawson.  :) 

Then Saturday morning, I decorated the table, with a little with help from my girls, while Dana made heart shaped pancakes, eggs and bacon for breakfast.  We ate, Dana and I exchanged cards/gifts and then we had the kids open their mailboxes with a little clue to find a small treat we had for them.  They were really excited and it was fun watching them.  Once they found their little toys, they got busy playing and we just chilled and hung out most of the day.  The kids also got treats from their Nana & Papa and Grandpa & Grandma.  They loved it too!  It was kinda last minute but Dana and I were able to have our own Valentine's date which we weren't expecting at all.  It's been a long time since we've actually gone out on Valentine's Day.  We usually celebrate another day because it's hard to get a sitter on Valentine's.  Anyway, we had dinner at the Second Street Grill, went to Borders and looked around and then had dessert at DQ.  It was a lot of fun!  Thanks Tina & Kathie for watching the kids for us.  It was a much needed night out!

It was so nice to have an extra day this weekend.  Dana spent a lot of it working on snow camp stuff but we finally got our t-shirt design down.  I can't believe snow camp is just three days away!!  I am so excited but feel a little unprepared.  It always comes together though.  We have a great group of kids going and I think God is doing to do great things this weekend. 

Checking in.

Well, I've been MIA on the blog front because my computer crashed last friday morning.  :(  It has been a long week to say the least.  I completely freak out when I can't get access to my computer.  I have everything on it, including my check register, and pay almost all my bills this way.  It's been so stressful not being able to work when I needed to.  Needless to say I am behind on everything now but the good news is that I have my old computer back today (temporarily because it's not going to last long) and have a new one on order.  So, hopefully this one will last until my new one gets here.  I know that my poor husband probably wants it here more than I do (and that's a lot!!).  I am not the most fun person to be around when I am stressed and he is too sweet to put up with me.  :)  Ok, I have to get back to work but just wanted to explain my hiatus.